Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Go Suck a Lemon: Strategies for Improving Your Emotional Intelligence
Michael Cornwall · 2025
🎙 Narrated by Michael Cornwall (author-narrated)
62/100
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Written by a credentialed clinical therapist, this leans on genuine clinical examples rather than dry theory, which gives the content real substance. That said, skip the audiobook if you can — listener reports describe the author's own narration as monotonous with a distracting background music loop, so the print or ebook is probably the better way in.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: rough Author-narrated by Michael Cornwall, not a trained performer; commentary describes a monotonous delivery with a distracting background music loop.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness68
Craft & writing55
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit80
Human-eye read60
Penny’s verdict62
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